ACT Worksheets

A comprehensive overview of the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (The Hexaflex).

Explore what truly matters to you across different life domains (relationships, work, health, etc.) to guide your actions.

A deep dive into values-based living: The 'Unlimited Confidence' thought experiment and a comprehensive list of 60 values.

Learn 10 practical techniques to unhook from difficult thoughts and reduce their impact on your behavior.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy exercises for depression: defusion, acceptance, values clarification, and committed action.

Apply ACT principles to anxiety, including willingness to experience sensations and dropping the struggle.

Practice holding two seemingly contradictory truths at once — a core ACT skill for psychological flexibility.

Connect with the part of you that can observe thoughts and feelings without being defined by them.

A visual tool for identifying your core values and aligning your daily actions with what matters most.

Printable PDF version of the Anxiety ACT Worksheet.

Understanding your nervous system as an ally, not an enemy.

Exploring the evolutionary purpose of fear and how to work with it.

How the struggle to control anxiety paradoxically amplifies it.

Working with the mind's tendency to predict the worst-case scenario.

Understanding the abandoned inner child as a source of anxiety.

Mapping the ways we avoid anxiety and the cost of that avoidance.

Tuning into the body's signals as a guide to emotional processing.

The tug-of-war metaphor: learning to stop fighting anxiety.

Moving toward valued living even in the presence of anxiety.

Practicing psychological flexibility and radical acceptance of difficult emotions.

Using values as a compass to navigate through anxiety toward a meaningful life.

Transforming anxiety into fuel for growth, creativity, and committed action.

An introduction to ACT for psychosis — exploring your relationship with unusual experiences and shifting from elimination to coexistence.

Cognitive defusion for psychosis — learning to see thoughts as mental events rather than facts, using 'I'm having the thought that...' and visualization exercises.

Acceptance work — examining the cost of struggling against your experiences and practicing willingness to coexist with difficult internal events.

Adapted mindfulness practices for psychosis — grounded, externally-focused exercises including the Five Senses Check-In, Mindful Object Focus, and Mindful Walking.

Identifying what matters across life domains — relationships, work, health, creativity, spirituality — and recognizing the gap between importance and consistency.

Building concrete action plans connected to values — including the willingness question and structured plans with specific steps, timing, and anticipated barriers.

Changing your relationship with voice-hearing experiences — from domination or warfare to coexistence using characterization, 'Thank You Mind,' and externalization.

Self-as-context — contacting the stable awareness behind your experiences using the Continuous You exercise and the Chessboard Metaphor.

Deepening present-moment contact — the 3-Breath Anchor, Running Commentary practice, and a 7-day tracking log for anchoring attention during psychotic experiences.

Deeper values work — examining how psychosis has shaped identity, distinguishing your values from imposed expectations, and confronting the grief of disconnection.

Sustaining committed action through setbacks — reviewing progress, working with failure compassionately, and building revised action plans with built-in resilience.

The final session — consolidating your ACT toolkit, building a daily maintenance plan, creating a crisis plan, and writing a message to your future self.